I am thinking about pursuing a network analysis of the genealogist network on WeRelate.org, and I'm wondering if there is previous literature about genealogist networks in particular, or even just about the attributes and motivations of genealogists. Both Social Network Analysis and genealogy are new fields to me, academically, so I'm still fumbling in the dark.

Here are a few papers that I've found. Are there others that I am missing?

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Jon Elsas did some work on a dataset from Ancestry.com while doing his PhD at CMU. While it appears that the dataset is no longer publicly available, he may be a good person to contact. He published at least one technical report on this topic: